If.........
 

Yer hands are a mess from fish scrapes, line cuts, hook point rips and tears and every time you move the thumb and index fingers it hurts like hell and the skin feels like it's burning on both hands from being rubbed raw on bass teeth, should you keep on fishing each night knowing that further damage will be heavily inflicted should you give it a nights rest?

:huh: Besides my BJ's Industrial size volume bottle of Hydrogen Peroxide is just about empty. Dilemma time.

Gloves of some kind ??? Might help ?

DUH !!!!!! :uhuh:

Skin regenerates quickly....wear it out!!!:tooth:

gloves, I've done it before. I had these yellow grip gloves, I picked up for a few bucks at a hardware store, worked great

What a problem to have :jester:

Try not using hooks?

:cheers:

Flap;
trick I picked up from a guy I used crew with to fish the shark tourneys..
cover all the cuts with neosporene and then put on rubber gloves for a while... seems to help.. usually I just skip the gloves and load the neosporene on before bed...

Badger Balm

buy an aloe vera plant
 

the next time your at walmart...or some other large retailer ($3.00)
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ya have to sorta filet one side of the spear of the aloe vera plant...

it's better if its an inch and a half wide....then fold /pull it back
so it's like an open book.... and rub your hands with the interior jelly.

best thing for burns/wounds there is....
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my brother had this chopper.....that wasn't tuned right....
so he goes zooming around..on it and the exhaust pipe was red hot after,
...and he accidentilly touches his neck to it....making some carb adjustment...
leaving a huge nasty silver dollar sized burn on the back side.

having a huge aloe growing....i said...be right back...and i filleted a big spear...
trimmed it like a patch....and taped it to his neck.
it healed that nasty burn like magic and he didn't even have a scar.

Yeah, welcome to my world...
 

I've got psoriasis on my hands. They just see water and they are a mess. I've learned to love the pain.

i have been taping my thumbs, seems to work, cept i don't seem to catch as many fish with the tape on. as soon as i forget the tape or go out with out it...OUCH:hidin: :jump:

I agree thats a great problem to have!. Mine are a little scraped up and I'm not going to lie that having a few days off has done wonders for my hands. Then again we only have so much time!

Keep fishing through it. When the skin heels over while being abused , it gets thick and tough and the problem goes away. That should happen right about when the fish go away too. :)

Anyway , aside from the bloody hamburg thumb , the rest is never too bad.

If you have scrapes then "beware" of the water that you fish. If there is bacteria in the water then you can be a candidate of flesh eating disease. There is someone that showed me photos of this disease that ate not only the surface skin but deep tissue muscle.

I like that neosporene/gove technique.

lose the hand, fish prosthetics instead
http://re3.mm-a7.yimg.com/image/2408331107

You'll be wishing you had those beat up hands when there's a foot of snow on the ground in another month. Keep fishing.....hands will heal later.

sherpa time. where do i sign up?

Suck it up :kewl:

thats almost as silly as BF telling me he had to wait for his waders to dry out before he could wear em again:bl2: .....you wont take the night off........:D

It would be better if my entire left arm was scraped from my fingertip to elbow, but I'll settle for what I have---no thumbprint, line cuts everywhere, and red blotches on the knuckles.

I like striper thumb, but striper wrist is better, and striper forearm really kicks ass :cheers:

Try New Skin liquid bandage. You can pick it up at any CVS, Brooks etc... type store. Cover any areas that are raw or cut and it will give you a layer of protection. It works wonders on line cuts, teeth scrapes hook punctures, etc..

Flap,

Pee on your hands. An old timer I used to know on the cape used to do this and said it works great. Never tried it myself or shook hands with the guy, but many people have said this works. Natural antiseptic.:think:

bag balm, for cow tits, works killer

You're a nobody until you've had striper bicep. :rolleyes:

What a nice dilemma to have! Enjoy the pain. Been so quiet here my hands are smooth as silk.

DZ

These fish are coming your way Dennis. All on Gag's stuff, I got a white Al's needle must have caught 400 fish on in the last two years, don't know how many hooks have been replaced on it. When that needle goes slowly through the water it actually swims side to side with it's little scuffed up and paint chipped nose just poking up.

Last night it was the five inch eel colored one ripped acroos the surface. Slow roll wouldn't do it. they wanted it zipping across and man the hits were awesome with the fire in the water, like small fireworks. I love how they change preference from night to night, the eel guys didn't do very much at all, but like the night before with the Pocket Rocket, they were talking to themselves ( so was I , I couldn't get over how that thing catches).

Rigged a black PR with a 4 inch black sluggo last night when I got home at 1am. Ready for tonight! I gotta get some good neoprene fingerless gloves somewhere today though.

mix bengay, habanero sauce and tabasco in bowl.

soak hands for 2 hours in mixture.

then dunk hands in hot melted paraffin (no rinsing beforehand)

don gloves.

:alien:

Ben, is that legal?:huh: :wave:

Or striper shoulder... just climb around and unhook it :D:jester:

steve, i assure you i have absolutely no idea if it is.

Ask Bruce. :bgi:

"you have city hands, Mr.Hooper, you been counting money all your life" Quint. :rotfl:
Geeze, Flap, I'd be happy with your dilemma! Yeah, I know I got a slap coming.

When your thumb becomes so sore you cannot use it, cut a finger off a rubber glove, smear your thumb lightly with any antiseptic ointment and apply the cut off rubber finger. Use a small rubber band and form a circle on the rubber finger something like a condom to keep it in place. It at least allows you the use of the finger.:btu: :btu:

You might want to try.......

Spotzthativebenfishen, RX

Your condition will clear up instantly. Give it hell while you have the opportunity.

:rotfl:

are you kidding. your hands have all winter to be perdy.
im fishing with a broken pinky.

I have to use steel wool and punch cactus to simulate

Buy Aquaskinz Black Thunder Gloves and never worry about scrapes and cuts again. Completely under-rated product.

DO NOT buy them for warmth, they actually do the reverse of keeping you warm once they're wet. Keeping your hands in perfect shape is what they're all about for me. Grab barnacle covered rocks (and fish) without fear.

http://www.saltwateredge.com/PROD//FW01

http://www.saltwateredge.com/miva/gr...r_gloves_g.jpg

I were thin knit gloves under the Black thunder gloves and my hands are fine and warm

The Aquaskinz black thunder gloves protect your hands well from the braid and fish abrasions, but you end up with bathtub hands afterward. No real need to go fingerless with them either.

Flap,

My family owned the oldest concession license in the State for many many years. I sold baloons (Peanuts, Popcorn, Ice Cream and a cold drink) at the entrance gate to the Boston Public Gardens for twenty years. Baloon string put nasty nasty line cuts on most of my fingers. I have been used to opening those old wounds throughout the fishing season and they get worse year after year. The amount of scar tissue I have in these areas and the pain that results from cutting open a twenty year old scar has at times brought me to tears. Fast forward to last year on MV and I got my scare when they thought I might have that flesh eating fish disease. I started wearing the Aquaskinz gloves. I realized a few weeks ago that my hands were not the mess they have been and it is because of the gloves. Yes I am invovolved with the company but I am dead serious that constant use of these gloves has made my fishing far more comfortable. As stated above, below 40 degrees and wet they do make your hands more cold butif they are dry, no problem in the cold weather. I love this product and now that I past 40 I am not as willing to be miserable when fishing.

Oh yeah, I am catching doo doo and if you want some company....just drop me a line (:>)